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Alumni

Graduate Students

  • Jerren Grimes, Ph.D. 2023 
  • Dalton Cox, Ph.D. 2023 Bloom Energy, San Jose, CA
  • Travis Schmauss, Ph.D. 2022 Bloom Energy, San Jose, CA
  • Nick Geisendorfer, Ph.D. 2022 Bloom Energy, San Jose, CA
  • Matthew Lu, Ph.D. 2019 Exponent, Menlo Park, CA –> Tesla, San Jose, CA
  • Qinyuan Liu, Ph.D. 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL –> Microsoft, Redmond, WA
  • Xiankai Yu, Ph.D. 2019 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
  • Sam Miller, Ph.D. 2018, Owens Corning, Granville, OH
  • Hongqian (Sharon) Wang, Ph.D. 2018 SF Motors, Santa Clara, CA
  • Kunli Yang, M.S. 2017 Ph.D. student, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
  • Kuan-Hua Chiu, M.S. 2016 Angstron Materials, Dayton, OH
  • Justin Railsback, Ph.D. 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  • Kevin Zhao, M.S. 2016 Gogoro, San Francisco, CA
  • Patrick Duffy, Ph.D. 2016 Honeywell Aerospace, Plymouth, MN
  • Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D. 2015 Stanford Synchotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo
  • Park, CA
  • David Kennouche, Ph.D. 2015 Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Kyle Yakal Kremiski, Ph.D. 2015 NASA, Washington DC
  • Ann Call, Ph.D. 2014 University of Sheffield, UK
  • Gareth Hughes, Ph.D. 2014 3M, Saint-Paul, MI
  • Scott Cronin, Ph.D. 2012 Intel, Portland, OR
  • David Bierschenk, Ph.D. 2011 ConocoPhillips, Bartlesville, OK
  • Megna Shah 2010 AFRL, Dayton, OH
  • James R. Wilson 2010 Bloom Energy, Sunnyvale, CA
  • Blake Stevens 2010 London, England
  • David Cohen 2008 Cranbrook Preperatory School
  • Mae Kobsiriphat 2008 Thailand National Metal and Materials Technology Center
  • Yuanbo Lin 2007 Diamond Innovations, Worthington, OH
  • Tammy Lai 2006 Nalco, IL
  • Brian Madsen 2005 Continental, Barrington, IL
  • Zhongliang Zhan 2005 Franklin Fuel Cells, Philadelphia, PA
  • Nikkia McDonald 2004 Functional Coating Technology LLC
  • Paul Von Dollen 2004 GE, Torrance, CA
  • Kurt Ruthe 2003 Intel, Portland, OR
  • Keith Martin 2001 Intel, Portland, OR
  • Ilwon Kim 2000 Functional Coating Technology LLC, Evanston
  • Manoj Pillai 2000 Bloom Energy Corporation, San Francisco
  • Quan Li 1999 University of Hong Kong
  • Erica Perry 1999 Ford Motor Company
  • Paul DeLuca 1999 Rand Corporation
  • David Kaufman 1999 Argonne National Labs, IL
  • Phil Yashar 1998 Intel, Portland, OR
  • Anita Madan 1998 IBM Corp. East Fishkill, NY
  • Jon Guyer 1997 National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Tsepin Tsai 1997 Reveo, Inc, NY
  • Greg Labanda 1997 Schlumberger Corp.
  • Joanna Mirecki 1997 Department of Materials Science, Univ. Michigan
  • Xi Chu 1995 Intel, Portland, OR
  • Li-Shun Wang 1994 Intel, Portland, OR
  • Meenam Shinn 1993 Samsung, Korea
  • Paul Mirkarimi 1993 Sandia Livermore National Lab
  • Roni Kaspi 1991 University of New Mexico
  • Chi-Hing Choi 1991 Intel, Portland, OR
  • Eric Thiele (MS) 1990
  • Suzanne Rohde 1990 Department of Mechanical Engin, Univ Nebraska

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Undergraduates

  • Cami Layden 2023
  • Dana Stanecki 2023
  • Saahir Ganti-Agrawal 2023, PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Alexia Popescu 2022, University of Illinois Urbana Champagne
  • Alex Furlong June 2018 Chase, Evanston, IL
  • Juveria Masood September 2015 – June 2018 McMaster Carr, Chicago, IL
  • Calvin Ng January 2015 – June 2017 Discover Financial Services, Rockwood, IL
  • Danielle Butts April 2014 – June 2016 PhD student, UCLA, Dr. Bruce Dunn
  • Rebecca Glaser January 2014 – June 2016 PhD student, Georgia Tech, Dr. Gleb Yushin
  • Yifan Sun July 2015 – June 2016 Osaka University, Research Student
  • Casey Riscoe 2014-2015
  • Tim Flavin 2009-2013
  • Danni Jin 2011-2013
  • Kuai-Kuai Jin 2011-2013
  • Thomas Yu 2012
  • Zach Patterson 2008-2011
  • Emma Dutton 2009-2011
  • Jack Ko 2010-2011
  • Boping Liu 2010-2011
  • Claire Boland 2009-2010
  • Oath Muangnapoh 2009-2010
  • Piotr Blaszczak 2009-2010
  • McCall Vollum 2009
  • Francesca Delaney, academic-year 2007-2008
  • Justin Martin, senior project, 2007-2008
  • Giancarlo Izzi, winter-spring 2007
  • Tom Hines, winter-spring 2006
  • Brian Lee, winter-spring 2006
  • Paul Peng, winter-spring 2006
  • Dan Gostovic, winter-spring 2004
  • Matt Price, co-op, 2001 – President, Activate Global Inc.

Visiting Scholars

  • SungHyun Jeon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Prof. Alessandro Donazzi (Politecnico di Milano, Milan)
  • Julian Ascolani-Yael (Instituto Balseiro)
  • Martini Trini (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Dr. Shanlin Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong University)
  • Dr. Sun Hee Choi (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Dr. Tenglong Zhu January 2015-April 2016 (China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing)
  • Dr. Hongbo Gao

Research Experience for Teachers Program

  • Jeffrey Drach, (York HS, Elmhurst) summer 2010
  • Rob Lang, summer 2009
  • Elizabeth Potter, (Lakes Community HS) summer 2009
  • Elizabeth Potter, (Lakes Community HS) summer 2008
  • Christopher Bruce, (James B. Conant HS) summer 2008
  • Sherry Rukes, summer 2007
  • Sara Pluth, summer 2006
  • Walter Kondratko, summer 2005

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program

  • Letty Dornfeld (Case Western University) 2016
  • Ben Slone (Centre College) 2011
  • Carolyn Swanborg (Michigan Tech University) 2008